Ray Waid Harroun - PA, early 1900s
Well by good fortune and this forum I have been contacted by a friend of a daughter of Douglas Waid, b. abt. 1906, Douglas having been the youngest sibling of my grandfather Ralph Dow Waid 1888-1933.My WAIDS are from western Penna. -- Warren and Venango Counties -- and I understand them to be kin (altho I have not yet determined how) to WAIDS (with that, less-common spelling) who are thick also in Crawford Co., Penna. around Meadville.
It seems that this friend of my cousin may by chance also be a cousin herself, as she is descended from one Ray Waid Harroun, who (she tells me) won the first Indianapolis 500 auto race.This Ray Waid Harroun was from the Meadville area, so somewhere it's likely that we are all kin.
Anyonel got anything on Ray Waid Harroun, race car driver and Pennsylvanian, and just who his -- presumably maternal -- WAID connections were?